Subject:
Yes, The Revolution Will Be Televised!
Courtesy of CommonDreams.org:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 19, 2000
1:06 AM
CONTACT: Democracy Now!
Karen Pomer (310) 463-7025
Yes, The Revolution Will Be Televised!
Breaking With Convention: Power, Protest and the Presidency
Community Radio and TV Join Together for Groundbreaking Convention
Coverage Live Broadcasts to Focus on Protests, Grassroots Voices
LOS ANGELES - July 18 - In an exciting milestone for the growing
independent media movement, Pacifica Radio's Democracy Now! will be
filmed and carried live on satellite and cable television during this
summer's political conventions, opening a vast new national audience for
grassroots voices and community radio. The daily two-hour broadcasts
direct from the Independent Media Centers in Philadelphia and Los Angeles
will also be live audio and video streamed over the World Wide Web.
Hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez,
Democracy Now! will be distributed by Deep Dish TV and Free Speech TV
(FSTV), a non-commercial network. The Dish Network carries FSTV, reaching
some two million-subscriber homes nationwide, many in rural areas not
served by public radio. FSTV will also distribute Democracy Now! To
public access and educational cable channels nationwide, reaching a
potential total audience of 20 million households.
In four short years, Democracy Now! has established itself as the premier
independent radio voice in the country. The one-hour daily program has
regularly broken key national and international stories, won top
journalism awards, built a strong and growing audience, and generated
critical acclaim and national press attention. The reason is simple.
Democracy Now! Stays ahead of the news, providing in-depth coverage of
the crucial issues of the day before they hit the media radar screen.
From the student sweatshop movement to the streets of Seattle, from East
Timor to the Niger Delta, Democracy Now! has become an important crucible
for new ideas and grassroots voices struggling for a just and equitable
world. "Welcome relief from the right-wing diatribes so common on the
airwaves," said The Philadelphia Daily News. Newt Gingrich told Democracy
Now! Anchor Amy Goodman, "I have advised my mother to talk to no
reporters because of people like you." The Indonesian military banned her
from entering the country. The Washington Post says simply: "The
mainstream media listen."
The national television broadcast marks a historic collaboration between
the 50-year-old community radio movement and the 25-year-old community TV
movement. It will dramatically expand the audience for grassroots voices
and allow independent media to amplify its national presence.
Program Coverage
Philadelphia/Republican, July 31 Aug. 4
Los Angeles/Democratic, Aug. 14 - Aug. 18
8-10 AM EST
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